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...this coming-of-age comedy based on a Maeve Binchy novel, the cutest, nicest guy at Dublin's Trinity College (Chris O'Donnell) falls in love with a convent-educated country shopkeeper's daughter (Minnie Driver). To him, she's beautiful, no matter how ungainly she thinks she is. And she sees beyond his good looks to the insecure and awkward boy beneath the facade. "Their sweet, determined, gently understated struggle for fulfillment in a superstitiously conservative society makes this movie a quiet joy to behold," says TIME critic Richard Schickel...
...passenger sits silently in the back. Liz and I talk about the radios and conversations with the dispatchers. "Over the radio, one night a dispatchers. "Over the radio, one night a dispatcher asked 'What is the meaning of life?' So a driver tried to answer, and then the other one jumped in, 'No, no that's completely wrong...
...Some passenger was on, and he just got really sick and started throwing up out the window. In the process, his cap fell off in the middle of Beacon St. There was some story behind the cap; it was sentimental to him for some reason. The passenger asked the driver to go back for the hat, and they did. After that, the escort driver made him clean up the side...
DIED. BERNARD CORNFELD, 67, financier; from pneumonia; in London. Cornfeld rose from the driver's seat of a Brooklyn cab to the helm of a financial empire. But his high-living, high-stakes universe evaporated in 1970 after his mutual-fund company went public, leading to a collapse that cost Cornfeld and his investors millions and landed the smooth-talking fallen star in prison. He was ultimately acquitted of embezzlement...
...enforcement officers believe thesuspect--described as a white male in his 20s--mayhave been the driver of the getaway car thatcrashed...